To:L. D. TROTSKY[1]

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Itlooks as though it has been possible to take the
position without a single shot, by a simple manoeuvre. I
suggest that we should not stop and should continue the
offensive, and for that purpose put through a motion to raise
at the Party congress the question of consolidating our
foreign trade, and the measures to improve its
implementation. This to be announced in the group of the Congress
of Soviets. I hope that you will not object to this, and will
not refuse to give a report in the group.

December 21, 1922

[1]OnDecember 18, 1922, the Plenum of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee rescinded a decision taken by the plenum in October,
and reaffirmed “the absolute need to maintain and effect the
organisational strengthening of the foreign trade monopoly” (Central
Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.P.S.U. Central Committee). The Twelfth Party Congress, held
in Moscow from April 17 to 25, 1923, also confirmed that the
foreign trade monopoly was not to be tampered with.